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Kurang Manis…

Malaysian consumed a lot of sugar/sweet stuff, we are among one of those countries that have lot’s of diabetic patients. Therefore, due to health issues, a lot of people tend/try to consume less sweet stuff whenever they can. That’s when we have this “kurang manis” word added behind our drinks whenever we make our orders especially at mamak or malay stalls.

“Kurang Manis” basically means less sweet. If you order a cup of nescafe/teh tarik, “kurang manis” means add less condensed milk, or when you order a glass of “limau ais”, kurang manis means less sugar. But one thing I found out whenever I order “kurang manis” drinks is, besides adding less condensed milk/sugar, they will reduce everything else too.

Let’s say you order nescafe kurang manis, when your drink is served, you’ll noticed, besides less condensed milk, they actually used less nescafe powder to make the drink. In other words, your nescafe becomes tasteless, no nescafe taste, no sweet taste.. Same goes with ordering limau ais, no limau taste, no sweet taste…

hmm…how to make them understand kurang manis is just to reduce the sugar/milk and not other stuff? Should we start order our drinks with.. nescafe kurang manis banyak nescafe? or limau ais kurang manis banyak limau?